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Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech

sudshr47 March 8, 2019

Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical […]

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Former Snap employees are launching Forge Platform for Ethereum devs

sudshr47 February 13, 2019

Chris Lorenz, Geoffrey Anderson, and James Borow may have spent their days over the past few years working at Snap, but on nights and weekends Anderson and Lorenz were laboring on a different project — improving Ethereum development tools. Now the three men are finally ready to take the covers off of the labor of love […]

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Startups Weekly: Spotify gets acquisitive and Instacart screws up

sudshr47 February 9, 2019 Startups

This week in startups: Turvo takes center stage, a mental health unicorn emerges and Reddit rakes in cash.

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Apeel partners with Nature’s Pride to bring spoilage resistant fruits and veggies to Europe

sudshr47 February 5, 2019

Apeel Sciences, the developer of a new technology that makes fruits and vegetables more resistant to spoilage, and Nature’s Pride, one of the largest vendors of avocados and mangos in Europe, are partnering to bring longer-lived avocados to market. Subject to regulatory approval in the EU, Nature’s Pride said it will integrate Apeel’s plant-based preservation […]

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Startups Weekly: Even Gwyneth Paltrow had a hard time raising VC

sudshr47 February 2, 2019 Startups

This week in startups: Celebrities mingle with VCs at the Upfront Summit, Pinterest preps banks for IPO and Sam Altman has a grand new idea.

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FabFitFun raises $80 million for its growing lifestyle brand

sudshr47 January 30, 2019

Nine years after launching its online magazine, and three years after diversifying into the subscription box business, FabFitFun has raised $80 million in a growth round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from its previous investors Upfront Ventures and NEA. The Los Angeles-based company has steadily expanded its retail and lifestyle empire through […]

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Backing Culture Genesis, T.I. launches Tech Cypha, an investment syndicate for tech deals

sudshr47 January 18, 2019

With an inaugural investment into the Los Angeles-based entertainment startup Culture Genesis, Clifford Harris Jr., who’s better known as “T.I.”, has launched a new syndicated investment vehicle called Tech Cypha. Launched by the music and cultural impresario with more hustle than hustle and his business partner Jason Geter, the new collaborative investment strategy focused on tech startups will […]

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E-scooter startup Bird is raising another $300M

sudshr47 January 9, 2019 Startups

The scooter “unicorn” is said to be fundraising on a flat pre-money valuation of $2 billion.

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The Wing gets $75M from Sequoia, Airbnb

sudshr47 December 19, 2018 Startups

The female-focused co-working space has raised $117 million to date.

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Putting the band back together, ExactTarget execs reunite to launch MetaCX

sudshr47 December 6, 2018

Scott McCorkle has spent most of his professional career thinking about business to business software and how to improve it for a company’s customers. The former President of ExactTarget and later chief executive of Salesforce Marketing Cloud has made billions of dollars building products to help support customer service and now he’s back at it […]

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Inboard opens general availability of its premium electric scooter

sudshr47 November 19, 2018

Inboard, the startup that sells a range of electric scooters and skateboards, has just opened sales of its first premium scooter — just in time for the holiday season. The company has already sold 285 of the scooters in a private pre-sale, with 80 percent of the orders coming from the United States and 35 […]